“I read books when I was a kid, lots of books. Books always seemed like magic to me. They took you to the most amazing places. When I got older, I realized I couldn't find books that took me to all the places I wanted to go. To go to those places, I had to write some books myself.”
― Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls

"Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words – the words live on..."
― J. Michael Straczynski

i feel you, friend - i hate horses, but somehow find myself writing them into pretty much every story? hmm. i really like word names for horses, like these:

prairie
calico
yankee
cricket
cameo
zephyr
ranger
sonnet

i like the suggestions of playing with the color of the horse, but what i'd do is name the horse a spin on dakota! dakota means friend or friendship, right? so what about bellamy, winifred (is winnie too on the nose for a horse?), amity, auden, livingston, irving, theophilius, jebidiah, winthrop?